In a message of 28-Dec-00 Julian Aronowitz wrote:
> IMHO, I think you and others missed the boat. ;-) Of course it
> would be nice to have all software in one place. Now, let us take
> a look at what is really happening.
I am not sure I did understand what is really happening from reading
your message.
> Freely Distributable s/w, by default, is located on Aminet.
> Various programs done by or used by V are on Vapor. MUI, MagicWB,
> etc., are on SASG. Miami, Miami Deluxe, etc., are located on
> Nordicglobal. What is right and what is wrong with this picture?
[...]
> Again, there is nothing wrong with wanting everything in one
> place; but, in which one place?
Of course it could be everywhere. I don't know how long you have had
access to the Internet, but I think more or less as far back as I can
remember (and that is many, many years), Aminet has always been the
place to find Amiga software.
Then all of a sudden most software authors had to make their own
support homepages, and for some reason they decided that the software
only should be available from here. Why?
I wanted to install StrICQ recently. On Aminet I found 0.1371 which
was a quite old archive. I looked in the documentation and found the
support URL: http://www.owlnet.net/amiga/stricq/ -- nothing wrong so
far, except the homepage didn't exist. I then decided that the
development (and support) of StrICQ had been discontinued.
Actually somebody else had taken over the development. How was I to
know that? One of my friend supplied me with an URL for the new site
so I could download the newest release.
It makes it difficult for the users to find the software they need.
When I wanted to upgrade to a true news reader it was only by
chance that I found NewsRog -- the world greatest news reader -- because
it wasn't listed on Aminet. It would have been so much easier if all
the news readers had had a presence on Aminet so I didn't have to ask
everybody about news readers to learn what were available and where to
find them.
But of course support sites has their place too. The alphas that
Olli & Co. has been releasing recently have certainly no place on
Aminet. Similarly a place for making registrations are needed. Actually
the sites are probably just fine as the are -- they should simply once
in a while upload an archive to Aminet.
Uffe Holst
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